Now, for your
entertainment and pleasure, here are a few examples of the kinds of chord
progressions inexperienced songwriters string together, mainly because they
don’t know about the harmonic scale.

Having studied the above examples by songwriting masters, you
will probably figure out pretty quickly why these progressions go off
the rails (Figures 118 - 121). Using Chase Charts, you can spot the
weakness by looking at the patterns of arrows that correspond to
consecutive fifths up, multiple third progressions, sequences of
chromatic progressions, non-involvement of dominant and tonic
chords, and so on.

This is not to say that such progressions could never work under
any circumstances. A songwriter might figure out a way to make
them sound palatable in the context of a cleverly-worked-out tune.
But why bother with a lot of pointless effort, trying to fix a lame
progression? They shoot lame chord progressions, don’t they?

Technically,
there's no such thing as a “wrong” chord progression in the sense of
“prohibited.” But there certainly are chord progressions that are easier for the
brain to make sense of. That's what this chapter has been all about.